[ESS] Emacs/ESS is missing that feature

Rodney Sparapani rsparapa at mcw.edu
Fri Jul 12 22:00:11 CEST 2013


On 07/12/2013 02:45 PM, Andreas Leha wrote:
> Yes, I am aware of that function and I do indeed use that extensively.
>
> For me, these summaries, head, etc suffice and are more than handy.
>
> But still, while discussing my analyses with the client, the client is
> usually not familiar with the different summaries and likes to see the
> data.  In these situations, I (far too) often write data to a csv which
> I than open in a spreadsheet program.
>
> I would love to see a better possibility to present a larger data set
> from within emacs.  Ideally without leaving ess, or via the csv route.
>
> Regards,
> Andreas

Well, you can do something like M-x server-start
and then in an *R* buffer.

data(galaxy)
edit(galaxy)

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Rodney Sparapani, PhD  Center for Patient Care and Outcomes Research
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